A Conversation with Melanie Ward from MAP

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy, Feminism

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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The Guilty Feminist: A Conversation with Melanie Ward from MAP

Presented by Deborah Frances-White with special guest Melanie Ward

Recorded 15 April 2024 via Riverside. Released 17 April.

The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge.

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0:00.0	Hello everybody. Just a very quick one about Instagram. If you're on it, Meta, the parent company,
0:08.7	is reducing the number of political posts visible to users on their feed. This is a real thing, not a hoax.
0:16.5	So go to your Instagram profile. Tap the three horizontal lines in the top right corner to open the settings tab, scroll down to what
0:27.2	you see, click on content preferences, open political content and turn on don't limit political content.
0:36.0	That's an option. Otherwise you won't see almost anything we post because we are deemed political.
0:43.0	Please do that now or you won't even see the posts about our shows, our fun things.
0:48.0	So if you want to see guilty feminist content and know when we're coming to a place near you,
0:52.0	releasing a new
0:53.4	podcast do it now. Okay, Hello Guilty
1:15.3	Feminists. This is Deborah and we are having a short emergency episode
1:21.1	with Melanie Ward the CEO of MAP, that's medical aid for Palestinians.
1:27.0	Melanie has just been in Gaza and she messaged me and said, look, I just really need to update you about the situation there.
1:37.0	Melanie, thank you so much for joining us.
1:39.0	Could you give us an update, please?
1:41.0	Sure, yeah. It's good to be with you.
1:45.0	As a guilty feminist listener myself, it's nice to have a chance to tell everybody about what I saw and heard and witnessed in Gaza last week. So I was in Gaza for a few days
1:57.7	last week and I have to say the scale of the humanitarian disaster on the ground is utterly horrifying and as
2:06.8	somebody who has followed the detail of what's happening in Gaza every day for the last six months who knows all of the statistics
2:19.4	about what's being done to people 110,000 people killed and injured so far.
2:24.3	A salmon condition.
2:26.3	110.
2:27.3	110,000 people killed and injured.
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